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Category: Lists

  • List #11: Decisions I need to Make

    List #11: Decisions I need to Make

    A list of decisions I need to make at the moment: What’s on your mind at the moment?

  • 101 Things: 400 Day Review

    101 Things: 400 Day Review

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 300 days, I calculated that I was 25.4% complete. The 400 day mark came and went while we were away. Let’s see how I went in the next 100 days … I calculate that’s an…

  • List # 10: Five Simple Household Items That Make Life Better

    List # 10: Five Simple Household Items That Make Life Better

    I’m not a person who is into things, but sometimes you find something that is so much better than the crappy thing you’ve been using for years, that you have to acknowledge it. Here are five things from our house that make my life easier. 2. My Microplane. This makes it so easy to get…

  • List #9: Some more Pet Peeves

    List #9: Some more Pet Peeves

    Over to you. The comment section is open for complaints!

  • 101 Things in 1001 Days: 300-Day Check-In

    101 Things in 1001 Days: 300-Day Check-In

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 200 days, I calculated that I was 19.96% complete. Let’s see how I went in the next 100 days … So that works out to be 5.42% more of the list complete which means I…

  • List # 8: Multiday Walks That Are On My Radar

    List # 8: Multiday Walks That Are On My Radar

    As I wrote last week, G and I are keen to do some more multi-day hiking/walking. We prefer options that you don’t have to camp, although my tolerance for a walk that requires camping or sharing a room is probably higher than G’s. I’ve been putting together a little list of walks we might like…

  • 101 Things in 1001 days: 200-Day Check-In

    101 Things in 1001 days: 200-Day Check-In

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 100 days, I calculated that I was 11.73% complete. Let’s get into the next 200 days, shall we? For days 100-200, I completed 8.22% of my list, which means I’m 19.96% through…

  • List #7: Places I’ve Lived

    I have never lived outside Melbourne. We currently live the furthest I ever have from where I was born which was the William Angliss Hospital in Ferntree Gully—31 km away. Here’s the list in order of all the places I’ve lived Have you lived in lots of different houses? Do you still live near where…

  • List #5: Things I Have No Intention of Ever Doing

    Another list for my 50 lists project. These are all the things I have no intention of ever doing. You may have guessed from this list that I’m not a thrill-seeker, I hate heights and I get all kinds of travel sick. Are you a thrill seeker? What kinds of things do you never want…

  • List #4: 100 Things that Made My Year – 2023

    Stealing this idea from Austin Kleon. You can see 2022’s post here.